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Apetition to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from former President Donald Trump's election interference case has received more than 43,000 signatures. Willis found herself embroiled in a scandal pertaining to a romantic relationship she held with Nathan Wade, an outside attorney brought into her office to help conduct the Trump investigation. It was argued this relationship was improper and should disqualify Willis from continuing to lead the case. She was allowed to remain, but the decision is being appealed. "Now the case is being appealed, and we're taking action," the petition reads. "Our senior legal team –...

On Friday, Donald Trump’s legal team filed an appeal aimed at reversing a decision by a Fulton County judge in Georgia, permitting District Attorney Fani Willis to continue prosecuting the criminal racketeering case against the former president and eight co-defendants. The 51-page motion submitted to Georgia Court of Appeals argues for clarity on the issue of “forensic misconduct,” under Georgia law that requires disqualification for certain acts of prosecutors. The appeal asserts that the trial judge, Scott McAfee, erred in not finding an actual conflict of interest. This argument hinges on Willis’ concealment of her romantic relationship with special prosecutor...

North Carolina State Senior Owen Lloyd posted the fastest time in the men's 1650 yard Freestyle, earning him the ACC Title, an automatic entry to the National Championships, and a new best time. Moments later, an announcement was made that Lloyd had been disqualified for "interference with another swimmer." The rule(s) at play from the NCAA rulebook: - Rule 2, Section 5, Article 1a: "Any competitor who interferes with another swimmer during a race shall be disqualified from that race, subject to the discretion of the referee..." - Rule 2, Section 5, Article 1b: "A swimmer who changes lanes during...

Political junkies might be in for quite a treat on Thursday. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has found herself embroiled in quite a scandal that could deal significant damage to her politically motivated effort to prosecute former President Donald Trump. On Monday, reports confirmed that a Georgia state judge will hold a hearing this Thursday to look at allegations that Willis engaged in an improper romantic relationship with one of the prosecutors she hired to prosecute the former president.A Georgia state judge on Monday confirmed that he will hold an evidentiary hearing on Thursday over allegations that embattled District...

Former President Donald Trump is apparently not the only Republican that Democrats are trying to remove from the ballot. The left has begun going after other candidates using the 14th Amendment in their effort to influence the outcome of the 2024 election.Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has found himself in the crosshairs with a new lawsuit filed in his state seeking to disqualify him from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, according to political commentator and Georgetown University Law School professor Jonathan Turley.As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through...

Maine has now become the second state in as many weeks, following a December 19 Colorado Supreme Court decision, to make the determination that President Donald Trump cannot appear on the ballot in the 2024 election. In a unilateral decision, the unelected secretary of state and far-left activist, heretofore unknown Shenna Bellows, disqualified from her state’s ballot the leading presidential candidate and presumptive nominee for the GOP. Rejecting any pretense of acting in accordance with due process or the rule of law, Bellows reasoned that our “sacred” democracy would only be preserved if she took it upon herself to reject...

Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot was “pure partisan ridiculous stuff.” Kasich said, “It’s going nowhere. I mean, look, I don’t need to lay out my bona fide as my opposition to Donald Trump. This is just pure partisan ridiculous stuff here.”

The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can't find enough young people who meet the basic requirements to enlist, according to Army Times. Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, second in command for Army Training and Doctrine Command, sounded off Thursday about the troubling developments. She highlighted disqualification rates for potential recruits jumped from 30-40% (pre-Covid) to a whopping 70% this year due to obesity, low test scores, and/or drug use.Gervais pointed out the service has experienced a "nosedive" in recruits since July 2021. She explained Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores were 10% lower during the virus pandemic...

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers has disqualified five Republican candidates for governor because of invalid signatures, including presumed front-runners former Detroit police chief James Craig and wealthy businessman Perry Johnson. The vote to disqualify was tied 2-2 along party lines but because there was no affirmative majority vote, the candidate’s names will not be on the ballot. Investigators for the board found 36 petition circulators for 10 different candidates in several races committed intentional forgery, signing random names on the petition sheets. The 36 circulators submitted 68,000 fraudulent signatures. The matter is going to court but time is growing...

Erin Gregoire crossed the finish line of the Houston Marathon, looked at her watch, and smiled. In her debut at the distance, she ran 2:42:55—well under the qualifying time of 2:45:00 she needed for the Olympic Marathon Trials. In what has become a complex case, however, Gregoire was denied entry into the Trials, because the differential between her gun time (2:54:54) and chip time (her 2:42:55) was too large. And the day of the Houston Marathon (January 19) was the final day of qualifying, so it was her last shot at getting into the race. “Obviously it was an incredible...

Harvest Bible Chapel elders have formally disqualified their founding pastor, James MacDonald, from ministry, reasoning that his actions have not met Scriptural requirements to be an elder.In a letter read to the congregation on Sunday, Elder Karl Jackson explains that even though the church elders were grateful to MacDonald for his three decades of ministry to the church, they nevertheless had to take action following revelations about his conduct.The elders stated: "On February 12, 2019 James MacDonald's employment was terminated by our elder board as our Senior Pastor for not being 'above reproach' and for having a 'sinful pattern of inappropriate...

At the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said that Hillary Clinton was not fit to be president of the United States because she did not take necessary steps to protect Americans in Libya. On the day that Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with three other brave Americans, was killed in Benghazi, Bolton said that “not only was nothing done, the response of the administration was to go home. The president left the Oval office in the situation room to go to the residence. Hillary Clinton left the State Department to go...

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